[GARY (Romain)]. Émile AJAR. La Vie devant soi. Paris, Mercure de France, 1975. In-8, brown half-maroquin with scrolled wood frame, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine (Devauchelle). First edition. One of 40 first copies on Ruysscher vellum, the only large paper. The second of four novels under the pseudonym Émile Ajar, La Vie devant soi won the 1975 Prix Goncourt - making Romain Gary the only writer to have been awarded the literary prize twice. Binding slightly rubbed.